21-09-2020, 03:32 PM
I have recently had my RP's engine to bits to fit new pistons to get rid of a little end rattle that had developed over the time I have owned the car. I have now owned the car for two years and have managed to clock up nearly ten thousand miles in this time. The current mileage is (1)04367 which I have reason to believe is genuine.
Whilst it was in bits, I checked the big ends, which proved to be in good order. As I turned the crank, I noticed for the first time that the engine number is engraved on one of the webs and accords with the cars' engine number. It seems, therefore that, with care, the bottom end of a two bearing Seven engine is, all things taken equally, pretty robust. Indeed, the only attention that the bottom end has received was the replacement of the rear main bearing shortly after I had the car and some 7K miles ago.
Apart from one of Robert Foreman's reworked LC heads, which has improved its' hill climbing ability (essential in the North Wales hinterland) the engine is completely standard.
The little car is running well and I am therefore inclined to leave things alone, or am I courting disaster?
Whilst it was in bits, I checked the big ends, which proved to be in good order. As I turned the crank, I noticed for the first time that the engine number is engraved on one of the webs and accords with the cars' engine number. It seems, therefore that, with care, the bottom end of a two bearing Seven engine is, all things taken equally, pretty robust. Indeed, the only attention that the bottom end has received was the replacement of the rear main bearing shortly after I had the car and some 7K miles ago.
Apart from one of Robert Foreman's reworked LC heads, which has improved its' hill climbing ability (essential in the North Wales hinterland) the engine is completely standard.
The little car is running well and I am therefore inclined to leave things alone, or am I courting disaster?